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Flood data of Bangladesh June, 2017

Bangladesh is one of the most flood-affected countries in the world. In the last few decades, flood frequency, intensity, duration, and devastation have increased in Bangladesh. Identifying flood-damaged areas is highly essential for an effective flood response. This study aimed at developing an operational methodology for rapid flood inundation and potential flood damaged area mapping to support a quick and effective event response. Sentinel-1 images from March, April, June, and August 2017 were used to generate inundation extents of the corresponding months. The 2017 pre-flood land cover maps were prepared using Landsat-8 images to identify major land cover on the ground before flooding. The overall accuracy of flood inundation mapping was 96.44% and the accuracy of the land cover map was 87.51%. The total flood inundated area corresponded to 2.01%, 4.53%, and 7.01% for the months April, June, and August 2017, respectively. Based on the Landsat-8 derived land cover information, the study determined that cropland damaged by floods was 1.51% in April, 3.46% in June, 5.30% in August, located mostly in the Sylhet and Rangpur divisions. Finally, flood inundation maps were distributed to the broader user community to aid in hazard response. The data and methodology of the study can be replicated for every year to map flooding in Bangladesh.

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Date ( Publication )
2017-08-11
Originator
  ICIMOD - Mr. Kabir Uddin ( GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist )
Nepal
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Purpose
Determine extent of flood inundation areas to support rapid disaster response.
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
( Theme )
  • Inundation Areas
  • Disaster
  • Sentinel SAR image
  • C-Band SAR
  • Rapid Response
  • Radar Image
  • Flood
  • Sentinel-1
Keywords ( Place )
  • Bangladesh
  • Brahmaputra
  • Jamuna River
  • Meghna River
  • Haor Region
Use limitation
Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2017). Flood data of Bangladesh April, 2017 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.34491
Use limitation
Citation: Uddin, K.; Matin, M.A.; Meyer, F.J. Operational Flood Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 SAR Images: A Case Study from Bangladesh. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1581.
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Use constraints
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Distance
30  m
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD -
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Dataset
File identifier
53423e0c-dfbc-4fd8-b4be-a4fcef6daf41 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-09-08T14:30:56
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Kabir Uddin ( GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist )
 
 

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C-Band SAR Disaster Flood Inundation Areas Radar Image Rapid Response Sentinel SAR image Sentinel-1

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